Munich, Germany, April 20th, 2005 –ibidi GmbH, a supplier of solutions for BioMicroscopy, announced today a cooperation agreement for the development of a new pumping system that shall pump in media suspended cells circularly with minimal mechanical stress. In combination with the ibidi perfusion chambers, known as µ-Slides, such a pump should allow perfusion systems to be run in an incubator over a long time.
Up to now, the cells are pumped in a closed circuit with the help of a peristaltic pump to minimize the amount of suspended cells. This type of pump has the disadvantage of squeezing the cells in the tubes, which might induce unwanted cell activation. The new pumping system, however, shall extensively reduce the mechanical stress for the cells thus preventing unwanted cell activation.
µ-Slides allow cell culturing and high resolution microscopy with one and the same slide. In perfusion experiments on µ-Slides, the interaction of substances with cells and between cells under semi natural flow conditions can be observed. Recently, the company launched the ibiTreat surface for µ-Slides, which shall improve cell adhesion and alleviates microscopy of living and fixed cells.
About ibidi GmbH – www.ibidi.com
ibidi® GmbH, Munich, Germany, develops, produces and distributes micro-Slides (µ-Slides), a “Lab-on-a-Slide®” technology for the analysis of cells and biomolecules. The µ-Slides represent a new family of flow through devices for the functional analysis of living cells. Currently, the µ-Slide product family comprises 8 different slide types for cell-culture and optical microscopy (high resolution, fluorescence, DIC) and protein- binding.
About Nanion Technologies GmbH – www.nanion.de
Nanion Technologies GmbH develops and markets automated electrophysiology assay systems, which increase the throughput in the drug screening process of compounds acting on ion channels. Nanions automated and parallel patch-clamp-on-a-chip technology combines high information content screening with the desired throughput. Nanion produces the instrumentation (screening-workstations) as well as the corresponding biochips (consumables).